Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/#atom-entries · January 30, 2026

Ode to the AA Battery

Ode to the AA Battery Recently this post from @Merocle caught my eye: I’m fixing my iFixit soldering station. I haven’t used it for a long time and the battery has gone overdischarge. I hope it will come back to life. Unfortunately, there are no replacements available for sale at the moment. Devices with built-in rechargeable batteries

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ode-to-the-aa-battery/ · January 29, 2026

Quantum is my happy place

Quantum is my happy place

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9528 · January 29, 2026

Adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website

Adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/28/dynamic-features-static-site/#atom-entries · January 28, 2026

Recapping My 5 Year Old Studio Monitors

Recapping My 5 Year Old Studio Monitors A few weeks ago, I started hearing a slight crackle at the loudest parts of whenever sound was playing through my PreSonus Eris E3.5 speakers. It was very faint, but quite annoying, especially when editing my YouTube videos. For a few days I thought it could be a hearing problem (at

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/recapping-my-5-year-old-studio-monitors/ · January 26, 2026

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash pipnpm install packages and download files

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash pipnpm install packages and download files

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/#atom-entries · January 26, 2026

On thugs

On thugs Those of us who tried to stop Trump from ever coming to power—and who then tried to stop his return to power—were accused of hysterics, of Trump Derangement Syndrome, when we talked about authoritarianism and the death of liberal democracy. Yet masked government agents summarily executing protesters in the street,

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9510 · January 25, 2026

Wilson Lin on FastRender a browser built by thousands of parallel agents

Wilson Lin on FastRender a browser built by thousands of parallel agents

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/23/fastrender/#atom-entries · January 23, 2026

Migrating 13000 Comments from Drupal to Hugo

Migrating 13000 Comments from Drupal to Hugo After 16 years on the LAMP stack, I finished migrating this website from Drupal to Hugo a few weeks ago. What’s old is new, as this blog was originally built with Thingamablog, a Java-based Static Site Generator (SSG) I ran on my Mac to generate HTML and FTP it up to

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/migrating-13000-comments-from-drupal-to-hugo/ · January 20, 2026

I Had A Dream

I Had A Dream Alas, the dream that I had last night was not the inspiring, MLK kind of dream, even though tomorrow happens to be the great man’s day. No, I had the literal kind of dream, where everything seems real but then you wake up and remember only the last fragments. In

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9502 · January 19, 2026